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No. 410,862. Patented Sept. 10, 1889.

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UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. STONE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

DRESS-FORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,862, datedSeptember 10, 1889.

Application filed March 18, 1889. Serial No. 303,670- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN B. STONE, of the city of Providence, in thecounty of Provi-. dence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Dress-Forms, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to improvements for adjusting, extending,and supporting the strips or wires forming the outer part or skeleton ofa dress-form; and it consists in the peculiar and novel construction oftwo or more supports and their radial connections with the dress-form,by which the dress-form is expanded or contracted and supported, as willbe more fully set forth hereinafter.

In the drawings similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts throughout.

Figure 1 is a view showing the expanded dress-form supported on acentral rod. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section showing the rods connectingthe form-ribs with the central adj ustable disk, Fig.3 is a top view ofthe adjustable disk, shown partly in section. Fig. 4 is a sectional viewof the adjustable disk and the supporting-sleeve. Fig. 5 is a sectionalview of the tube and standard, showing the locking device by which thestandard is connected with the tube.

In dress-forms as heretofore constructed the adjustment of the outerribs to the desired circumferential measurement was effected by slidingthe blocks in which the braces are hinged vertically. To effect this,the sliding block had to be released from the standard and raised toexpand the ribs. The weight of the block, the braces, and the-springtension of the ribs had to be overcome nearly at arms length of theoperator. To ladies, the frequent adjustment of these forms is tryingand difficult.

The object ofthis invention is to overcome this difficulty and constructa dress-form in which the supports of the expanding-braces require noraising or lowering when the dressform is in use and less strength oreffort to adjust the ribs to the required dimensions. To attain thisobject I place on the standard vertically-adjustable sleeves and securethe same in the proper position when the form is set up for use. Onthese sleeves are secured disks, and each is provided with a clampingdevice, by which the disk is secured to the sleeve in any desiredposition. The ribs of the form are connected to the disks by braces, sothat by turning the disks the braces will assume a radial position forthe largest expansion of the form and a tangential position for thecontracted form having the smallest circumference, thus allowing the useof the form without any vertical change of the central adjustablesupports with considerable changes in the circumferential length.

In the drawings, 10 indicates a tube, which is usually secured toanysuitable supportingbase. The standard 11 is supported in the tube 10,and extends upward,forming the support of the dress-form. The standardis provided at its lower end with the grooves 12, into which the pin 18enters. The pin 13 is provided with a loop or handle, and a portion ofthe pin is cut away, so that by turning the pin the standard 11 may beraised or lowered to adjust the dress-form to the desired length ofdress.

The disks 14 turn on the sleeves 15. These sleeves 15 are secured to thestandard by means of the cam-lever 16. The disk 14 is secured to thesleeve by the cam-lever 17. The braces 18 are secured in the disk 1 1 bybending the ends at right angles, then inserting the bent ends through ahole in the disk and bending the projecting ends into loops. The disk14: may be made as shown in Fig. 4, in .which the disk proper is formedwith a concave angular groove. The wires or braces are secured, as abovedescribed, so that the bent loop is in the annular groove. The upperpart of the disk, provided with the camlever 17, is also provided withan annular groove, and the two parts are secured together by the screwsor rivets 19, as shown in Fig. 3.

The braces 18 are pivotally secured to the metal clamps 20, which aresecured to the vertical ribs 21. The crossribs 22 are pivotallyconnected to the vertical ribs 21, and, crossing over from one rib tothe next rib, are secured to the lower end of the vertical ribs, by arivet or similar connection passing through the slots 23 near the lowerend of the cross-ribs 22.

Loosely connected with the ribs 21, at the waist end at the hip portionof the dress-form, by means of loops or slides, are the bands 2-1. Thesebands are provided with a number of holes into which a button secured toonepart of the band 21- can be entered. These holes are preferablynumbered. The bands are made of metal, so as to at all times keep theirform and exact diameter.

Great strength and rigidity are secured in my improved dress-form byreason of the cross-ribs 22.

Dress-forms are usually placed in the different departments of a storehaving ladies, misses, and childrens dresses for sale. All thevariations in size in each one of these de partments can be quicklysecured in my improved dress-form by turning the disks 14, so as toexpand or contract the ribs, and by loosening the sleeves 15 and movingthe upper disks farther apart or closer together the (l1'GSSfO1Il1arranged for one department can be readily changed for a larger orsmaller general size.

For transportation the dress-form can be collapsed, so as to take up butlittle space, by loosening the sleeve 15 and allowing the disks 14 toslide on the standard until the ribs are in contact with the disks 11.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In a dress-form, the combination, with the standard1.1, provided with the grooves 12, of the tube 10, and the loekingdeviee13, consisting of a cylindrical portion, part of which is cut away, anda loop forming a handle constructed to adjust the height of thedressform and secure the same by turning the locking device, asdescribed.

2. Ina dress-form, the combination, with the vertical ribs forming theskirt of the dressform and the standard, of two or more disksconstructed to be turned horizontally, and provided with mechanism forsecuring the same in the desired position, and braces pivotallyconnected with the disks and with the vertical ribs, the wholeconstructed so that by turning the disks the tangential position of thebraces'is changed to the radial position, 01' vice versa, and thevertical ribs are expanded or contracted, as described.

The combination, in a dress-form, with the vertical ribs and tangentialbraces pivotally connected with the vertical ribs and with a disksupported on the standard at the lower part of the dress-form, of ribspivotally connected with the vertical. ribs near the upper part andsecured to the lower part-of the next rib, as described.

1. In a dress-form, the combination, with the standard 11, of two ormore disks 1.4, constructed to turn horizontally, the braces 18,pivotally connected with the disk or disks and with the vertical ribs,and. the ribs 21 and 22, and the cam-levers 17, constructed to securethe dress-form in the expanded condition, as described. a

5. In a dress-form, the combination, with the standard 1.1, the verticalribs 21. and 22, and the bands 211, of the disks 11-, braces 18,pivotally connected with the disks 14: and the vertical ribs 21, and thecam-levers 17,0011- structed to expand the dress-form to the adjustmentof the bands, as described.

6. In a dress-form, the combination, with the standard 11, of the sleeve15, provided with the cam-lever 16, the disk 11, and cam-lever 17, andthe braces 18, pivotally connected with the vertical ribs of thedress-form, and with the disk 14, constructed to expand or contract thedress-form by partial rotation of the disk 1-1, as described.

. JOHN B. {"lONE.

Witnesses:

M. F. ilmon, J. A. MILLER, 11'.

